by Carl Howard | Sep 30, 2008 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal,...
by Carl Howard | Sep 18, 2008 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible
I went to a Jewish school. Sometimes in prayers, to alleviate the dreariness, I’d tell a friend Bible stories to laugh about. I called the segment “the rabbis don’t want you to know”, based on the comic genius someone (I can’t remember the name) who had an act called...
by Carl Howard | Sep 15, 2008 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
In Christianity the name for the Hebrew Bible is Old Testament, in Judaism one of the names is Tanach. Many think these are interchangeable, but they’re very different concepts. Names Let’s start with the obvious. Old Testament presumes there’s a New Testament that’s...
by Carl Howard | Apr 27, 0209 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
I just heard an excellent BloggingHeads talk between Robert Wright and David Plotz (whose Blogging the Bible series is the inspiration for my strangely-similarly-named series). The talk was about David publishing his Blogging the Bible as a book. David noted that...
